Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [verb] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the British profession has not adopted a multi-media outlook with the celerity that many would wish , there are plenty of examples of public libraries with visual and aural collections , and the counties of Wiltshire , Somerset and Leicestershire have in recent years been offering significant audio-visual services to teachers and schools . |
| 2 | McAllister , 28 , joined Leeds from Leicester City for £1m in the summer of 1990 , and has not missed a league game . |
| 3 | Kaleida has not given a release date for ScriptX . |
| 4 | Kaleida has not given a release date for ScriptX . |
| 5 | Len Wright , who narrowly escaped death during the battle , made famous in the film , A Bridge Too Far , has not made a parachute jump for nearly 40 years . |
| 6 | British literature since 1945 has not proved a coterie literature , on the whole , though it has occasionally grouped itself , at least notionally , into informal sets . |
| 7 | However , a booster of diphtheria vaccine is recommended , even for a short trip to Russia , if the traveller is not vaccinated or has not had a booster dose within 10 years . |
| 8 | The FOP regularly puts up constituency candidates , but it has not won a constituency seat since 1957 . |
| 9 | Hendry , who has not won a ranking event this season but could well be timing his peak to perfection with the world championship less than six weeks away , followed up with a break of 105 to lead 3-0 . |
| 10 | And , although BR has not closed a railway line since 1976 , it can not afford to repair a major structure . |
| 11 | Apart from a cameo role in the ill-fated and so far unreleased Bloodhounds of Broadway , she has not taken a film role since the poorly conceived Shanghai Express and Who 's That Girl . |
| 12 | driven by anyone who you know is disqualified from driving or has not held a driving licence , or is prevented by law for holding one |
| 13 | driven by anyone who you know is disqualified from driving or has not held a driving licence , or is prevented by law for holding one . |
| 14 | driven by anyone who you know is disqualified from driving or has not held a driving licence , or is prevented by law for holding one . |
| 15 | driven by anyone who you know is disqualified from driving or has not held a driving licence , or is prevented by law for holding one . |
| 16 | driven by anyone who you know is disqualified from driving or has not held a driving licence , or is prevented by law for holding one . |
| 17 | This has not got a drip course , you know ? |
| 18 | This has not got a drip course . |
| 19 | Ordinary speech is therefore usually a very imperfect representation of the underlying rules of grammar and appears not to provide a sound database for the derivation of these rules . |
| 20 | Treaty does not preclude a nationality requirement of the type at issue in the main proceedings , because discrimination on grounds of nationality can arise only where , under the law of a member state , persons are treated differently on account of their nationality . |
| 21 | ‘ Community law as it now stands … does not preclude a member state , in authorising one of its vessels to fish against national quotas , from laying down conditions designed to ensure that the vessel has a real economic link with that state if that link concerns only the relations between that vessel 's fishing operations and the populations dependent on fisheries and related industries ; … |
| 22 | Assuming the trustees use the loan to acquire Newco shares which they then distribute to employees ( relying on the Revenue 's press release of 5 December 1990 to ensure the trust does not suffer a capital gains tax charge ) , they will not be able to repay the borrowings , in which case Newco might as well have made a gift of the necessary funds to the trustees at the outset . |
| 23 | This man does not wear a jogger suit for effect . |
| 24 | The food certainly does not wear a hair shirt , and nor does Rex , ebullient and gregarious , ensuring a meal at his place is a sort of crazy party with himself as the slightly eccentric host . |
| 25 | P.B. I would be concerned as a Catholic parent if a lady who does not go by her married name and does not wear a wedding ring is appointed . |
| 26 | If an animal does not eat a food item at one moment but does later , it may only be because it was not hungry before , not because it has learned to see it . |
| 27 | But woe betide any minister who does not possess a country seat and sets off across the Channel to ‘ abroad ’ . |
| 28 | Anyone who does not possess a fax machine of their own can use their local printer or British Telecom 's Bureaufax service which is run from offices up and down the country . |
| 29 | The amendment requires the court to give reasons if it does not make a compensation order in circumstances where it has power to do so . |
| 30 | The new practice will apply to gains arising from an accident insurance policy that affords protection against the risk of dying only if death is as a result of an accident , has no investment content , and does not acquire a surrender value ( other than one equal to the proportion of the premium paid which is refundable if the policy is terminated early or in other circumstances ) . |